Charles Saint-Evremond Quotations

Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremondwas a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees. He is buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster. He wrote for his friends and did not intend his work to be published, although a few of his pieces were leaked in his lifetime. The first full collection of... (wikipedia)